by Katie P | Feb 8, 2019 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
Too often in the world today, we hear people bragging of how they “won” and gained more power for themselves. They often do so by hurting or manipulating someone else to get their way, or by using any number of cruel methods. But what about nice things that we do for...
by Alison P | Feb 7, 2019 | Home and Family
One of the greatest challenges many of us face today is a matter of time. We never seem to have enough of it. Often, if we try to look at things rationally, we’ll feel that we should either be able to accomplish more within a given hour, day, or week, or...
by Walter Penning | Feb 6, 2019 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
Christmas is all about gifts. Now wait a minute. Before you think I am misspeaking, read on. My grandsons are really great. Though only months separate them in age, they are growing up so quickly. I had forgotten how inquisitive new toddlers are but have...
by Tudie Rose | Feb 5, 2019 | Tudie Rose: Strengthening Our Faith
I’ve been writing articles for LDS Blogs for five years. Originally, I wrote weekly articles about marriage. Then I wrote weekly “Daily Dose” articles teaching gospel principles based on a quotation. The last two and a half years, I’ve written bi-weekly articles under...
by Patty Sampson | Feb 4, 2019 | Patty Sampson: Christian Life
I was recently watching a video of a little girl telling the story of Jonah so poignantly. She was emphasizing how Jonah was scared by what the Lord had asked him to do. I started reflecting on my life, to see if I had a Jonah moment — and I realized I did!...
by Delisa Hargrove | Feb 3, 2019 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
Does anyone else feel like a motivation battle begins every time the morning alarm goes off? I feel this incessant pull between “need tos,” “shoulds,” “want tos,” and where I ultimately say I want to be. I’d love to live intentionally. I have wonderful, awesome...
by Paul Pulsipher | Feb 2, 2019 | Paul Pulsipher: Married Latter-day Men
If you’ve read The Infinite Atonement by Brother Tad R. Callister even once all the way through, you’ve seen how incredible an author he is. There is one quote in that book that, among over 180 others I collected while I read it the first two times...
by Shawna Smart | Feb 1, 2019 | Shawna Smart: Strength and Adversity
The best way I can explain my feelings right now is this: I’m looking up for direction on an isolated dirt road. I know deep in my heart that I’m on the right course. I have traveled this road before. I encountered different bumps and a pothole or two, and the dust...
by Elisha Ransom | Jan 31, 2019 | Elisha Ransom: I Am Enough
As I am writing this, it is my 26th birthday. This birthday has gone about the same as my birthdays from the past four years since I returned from my mission. I always have what could be kindly termed “emotional distress,” but a more accurate term would be “complete...
by Walter Penning | Jan 30, 2019 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
Parenting is really great. Now, as my wife and I enter the grandparenting stage, it is turning out to be more wonderful than we ever expected! I have four little grandsons and more on the way. Another daughter is expecting, and still another was just married this...
